Grace Zhai
The Blockchain Review by Intrepid
3 min readMar 26, 2019

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Here’s what’s in store for you this week: CoinMarketCap introduces new metrics for crypto fundamentals, and a new report shows that 95% of Bitcoin exchange trading volume is faked. We’ve got thoughts from the Blockchain Review on the importance of UX design for your blockchain startup, as well as insights on the security tokens, browser extensions for privacy, and more. Check it out below!

Key news highlights. What’s going on in the world of Blockchain?

95 Percent of All Reported Bitcoin Trading Volume is Faked
Bitwise Asset Management published a wide-ranging report which claims that 95 percent of all reported bitcoin trading volume is faked. Here’s what the findings from the report could mean for the market and the approval of Bitcoin ETFs.
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CoinMarketCap Introduces New Metrics for Crypto Fundamentals
Cryptocurrency market data platform CoinMarketCap has added a new metric for measuring the fundamentals of cryptocurrency projects. The new rating system dubbed the Fundamental Crypto Asset Score (FCAS) measures cryptocurrency projects “health” using a few key variables. Read on for how the score is calculated and how you can use it.
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World Bank Blockchain Pilot Sows Fresh Narrative for Haiti’s Farmers
AgriLedger, an agricultural-focused blockchain systems provider, is working on a World Bank-backed pilot that offers end-to-end full traceability through their platform to enable transparency along the value chain. Here’s how the next generation of software architecture is cropping up to advance the goal of achieving global food security.
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The latest insights, thoughts, and analysis from the Intrepid Team

Why Your Blockchain Startup Needs UX Design
User-centered design thinking principles can help new startups attract and retain users and can make or break a project. But the topics of UX design and customer experience seem to be at the bottom of the priority list for most blockchain startups. Here’s why your startup needs UX design.
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8 Useful Browser Extensions for Cryptocurrency Users
Whether you use Chrome, Brave, Firefox, Safari, or Opera, some of the following extensions may come in handy for interacting with blockchains. From enhancing your privacy, to performing crypto payments in your browser, check out the list of extensions here!
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Security Token Overview Series
This research series explores the contexts, structures, possibilities, and limitations of security tokens, through an extended series of research memos and commentaries. It also looks at existing arguments relating to securities tokens and the potential for them to bridge the gulf between traditional securities markets and emerging cryptocurrency markets.
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Blockchain and Cloud Computing Applications
Cloud computing is the provision of on-demand computer resources such as data centres, applications, servers, storage and software over the internet. But cloud computing has met two major problems according to IBM: security and inconsistent performance. Here’s an angle for why blockchain might be a solution.
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